1. CARLOS SLIM HELU
Net Worth : US$ 74.0 billion
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Age : 71 years old
Citizenship : Mexico
Sources of Wealth : Telmex, América Móvil, Grupo Carso
Carlos Slim Helu is again Forbes richest man of the world surpassing Microsoft's Bill Gates for the second time. He had a pretty comfortable life growing up as he has a wealthy real estate salesman father. Slim graduated from the National Autonomous University of Mexico with an engineering degree then later began investing in different business throughout the Mexican market. Not long afterwards, these businesses became the base of his conglomerate Grupo Carso.
2. BILL GATES
Net Worth : US$ 56.0 billion
Age : 55 years old
Citizenship : United States of America
Sources of Wealth : Microsoft
Bill Gates is the chairman of Microsoft Corporation. Born on Oct. 28, 1955, Gates grew up in Seattle with his two sisters. Their father, William H. Gates II, is a Seattle attorney. Their late mother, Mary Gates, was a schoolteacher, University of Washington regent, and chairwoman of United Way International.
Gates attended public elementary school and the private Lakeside School. There, he discovered his interest in software and began programming computers at age 13.
In 1973, Gates entered Harvard University as a freshman, where he lived down the hall from Steve Ballmer, now Microsoft's chief executive officer. While at Harvard, Gates developed a version of the programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer - the MITS Altair.
In his junior year, Gates left Harvard to devote his energies to Microsoft, a company he had begun in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Guided by a belief that the computer would be a valuable tool on every office desktop and in every home, they began developing software for personal computers. Gates' foresight and his vision for personal computing have been central to the success of Microsoft and the software industry
Nowadays, Bill Gates and his wife Melinda have been very active in reaching out to the lesser privileged people through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation established on June 2008. He has recent collaboration with another tycoon Warren Buffet to meet with their rich Indian peers and encourage them to give back part of their money to charities.
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3. WARREN BUFFET
Net Worth : US$ 50.0 billion
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Age : 80 years old
Citizenship : United States of America
Sources of Wealth : Berkshire Hathaway
Named as the "Oracle of Ohama" or the "Sages of Omaha", Warren Buffet is widely regarded as one of the most successful investors in the world. Ranked as 2008 world's wealthiest person, he is now ranked as Forbes 3rd wealthiest man in the world. Same with his colleague Bill Gates, he is also a philanthropist who pledged to give away 99% of his fortune to philanthropic causes via the Gates Foundation.
Warren Buffet was born as second of the three children of businessman and politician, Howard Buffet and his wife Leila in Omaha, Nebraska. He studied college at Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1947. He later transferred to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and graduated with a degree of Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. After this, he enrolled at Columbia Business School and later received a M.S. in Economics in 1951. He also attended the New York Institute of Finance.
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4. BERNARD ARNAULT
Net Worth : US$ 41.0 billion
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Age : 62 years old
Citizenship : France
Sources of Wealth : LVMH Moët Hennessy • Louis Vuitton S.A.
Arnault was born on March 5, 1949 in Roubaix. He is a French businessman who founded the company LVMH, a large luxury goods of conglomerate consisting of over fifty luxury brands including Louis Vuitton, Dior and Fendi. He is Europe's richest man and world's 4th wealthiest man in the world. Recently, Arnault persists in his pursuit of another luxurious fashion brand and family-owned company, Hermes.
5. LAWRENCE ELLISON
Net Worth : US$ 39.5 billion
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Age : 66 years old
Citizenship : United States of America
Sources of Wealth : Oracle Corporation
Larry Ellison (born August 17, 1944) is an American business magnate, co-founder and chief executive officer of Oracle Corporation, a major enterprise software company. As of 2011 he is the fifth richest person in the world, with a personal wealth of $39.5 billion.
Larry Ellison was born in New York City to Florence Spellman, an unwed 19-year-old. Ellison's biological father was an Italian-American U. S. Air Force pilot, who was stationed abroad before Spellman realized that she had become pregnant by him. After Larry Ellison contracted pneumonia at the age of nine months, his mother determined that she was unable to care for him adequately, and arranged for him to be adopted by her aunt and uncle in Chicago. Lillian Spellman Ellison and Louis Ellison adopted him when he was nine months old. Lillian was the second wife of Louis Ellison, a Russian Jew who had arrived in the United States in 1905. Ellison did not meet his biological mother until he was 48.
Ellison graduated from Eugene Field Elementary School on Chicago's north side in January, 1958 and attended Sullivan High School at least through the fall of 1959 before moving to South Shore.
Ellison grew up in a two-bedroom apartment in Chicago's South Shore middle-class Jewish neighborhood. Ellison remembers his adoptive mother as warm and loving, in contrast to his austere, unsupportive, and often distant adoptive father, a Russian Jew from the Crimea who adopted the name Ellison to honor his point of entry into the USA, Ellis Island. Louis, his adoptive father, was a modest government employee who had made a small fortune in Chicago real estate, only to lose it during the Great Depression.
Ellison was a bright but inattentive student. He left the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign at the end of his second year, after not taking his final exams because his adoptive mother had just died. After spending a summer in Northern California, where he lived with his friend Chuck Weiss, he attended the University of Chicago for one term, where he first encountered computer
designing. In 1964, at 20 years of age, he moved to northern California permanently.
designing. In 1964, at 20 years of age, he moved to northern California permanently.
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